Krista A. Milne (PhD, FRHistS)

Universitair docent 1 (Leiden University), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Comenius Network Member

Krista A. Milne is the author of three books about the history of medieval literature and culture: The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), Textual and Artistic Representations of Guide Dogs in Northwestern Europe, 1100 to 1500 (London: Palgrave, forthcoming 2025) and Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England: from ‘Ancrene Wisse’ to ‘The Parson’s Tale’ (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021). She also regularly publishes articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as French Studies and Modern Language Review. In recognition of her contributions to historical research, Milne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2025.

Milne’s work has been received multiple individual grants, including a Dutch Research Council Veni Grant (2020-2024), two Dutch Research Council Open Competition XS Grants (2024; 2025), a Dutch Research Council/NRO Comenius Fellowship (2019-2021), and Europeana’s Research Grant (2018). Milne has also been co-investigator on multiple grant-funded collaborative projects. Combining the tools and methods of digital humanities, quantitative book history and literary studies, these projects have aimed at answering longstanding questions about medieval books and their readers by using some of the quantitative and digital methods that are typically reserved for the “hard” sciences.

Originally from Canada, Milne has been working since 2016 at Leiden University (in The Netherlands), where she holds a tenured-equivalent research and teaching post.